Foodie

//ˈfuːdi// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person with a special interest in or knowledge of food, a gourmet. colloquial

    "We self-professed foodies liked to meet in restaurants and talk like experts about what we were eating."

  2. 2
    a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) wordnet

Synonyms

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bon vivantchowhoundchowhoundepicureepicureepicurean

Example

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"Benedito's date was a foodie, so they went to a cooking class."

Etymology

From food + -ie. Popularized by Ann Barr and Paul Levy in The Official Foodie Handbook (1984). Levy credits New York food critic Gael Greene with the coinage. The word was used by Greene in a 1980 article in New York magazine, see quotations.

Related phrases

fast-foodiefoodie callfoodie-ism

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